Ground Zero victims: 'A little too late'

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Reggie Hilaire wasn't too interested in tuning in to watch ex-EPA chief Christie Whitman testify before a House panel Monday. Neither were John Feal or Chris Baumann. They said they'd heard it all before.

The three area residents all worked at or near Ground Zero in the days or months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, and each of the men said they didn't expect to learn anything new from Whitman's testimony.

"I think it's a little too late in the game," Hilaire said. "When it happened, or just after, she should have stepped up and become a leader."

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"She's playing with words," said Baumann, a retired NYPD traffic control officer from Lindenhurst. "The air quality down there was so bad to burn a couple of layers of my eye away. I cannot see how she, with any conscience at all, can say the air quality down there was fine."

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/newyork/ny-liair0626,0,940545.story?coll=ny-top-headlines

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1. After hacking coughs and bloody noses in BPC

there was no doubt that Bush, Guilliani and Whitman were totally full of shit
and were playing politics with our health (and lives)

[Skittles]

2. Whitman was more interested in playing a repuke whore

than doing the right thing :puke:

[lovuian]

3. The abuse of first responders and the goodwill of people

just shows this administration doesn't give a hoot